User's Manual
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Privacy settings
Y
o
u
use the Privacy
settings
to manage whether your
settings
and other data
are
backed up to Google
servers, using your Google
account.
Y
o
u
also use
thes
e
settings
to erase all the data on your tablet by
performing a factory data
rese
t.
Back up my data: Check to back up some of your personal data to Google
servers,
with your
Google Account. If you replace your
tablet,
you can restore
the
data you’ve backed up, the first
time you sign in with your Google Account. If you check this option, a wide variety of your personal
data is backed up, including your Wi-Fi
passwords,
Browser bookmarks, a list of the
applications
you’ve
instal
led
from Market, the words you’ve added to the user dictionary used by the
onscreen
keyboard, and most of the
settings
that you configure with the Settings
appli
cation.
Some third-
party
applications
may also take advantage of this
feature,
so you
ca
n
restore your data if you
reinstall an
application.
If you
uncheck
this option, you
stop
backing up your data to your
account,
and any existing backups are
de
let
e
d
from Google
servers.
Backup
account:
Displays the Google Account that your
settings
and other
da
ta
are backed up
with. This is the
account
you need to sign into on a new
Androi
d
tablet or other device, if you
want to restore the
settings
from this tablet to
t
h
at
device
.
Automatic restore: Check this option to restore
settings
and other data when you reinstall an
application.
This feature requires that you are backing up your
data
with your Google Account and
that the
application
is using the backup servi
ce.
Factory data reset: Opens a dialog where you can erase all of your personal
da
ta
from internal
tablet storage, including information about your Google Account,
any
other
accounts,
your system
and
application settings,
any
downloaded
applica
t
io
ns,
as well as your music, photos, videos, and
other files. If you reset
the
tablet in this way, the next time you turn on your tablet
you’re
prompted to
re
en
ter
the same kind of information as when you first
started
Android.
Storage settings
Use the Storage
settings
to monitor the used and available space on your
tablet’
s
internal
storage.
Y
o
u
can also view and manage the storage used by
applications.
Y
o
u
can view, reopen, and delete files
you’ve downloaded with Browser, Gmail, or Email with the Downloads
application.